tachometer

See also: Tachometer

English

Alternative forms

• tachometre (nonstandard)

Etymology

From tacho- +‎ -meter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈkɒmətə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tachometer (plural tachometers)

1. A device for measuring the revolutions per minute (RPMs) of a revolving shaft, as with the driveshaft of an automobile.
2. A device for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of blood, a river, a machine, etc.

Synonyms

• rev counter
• tach (clipped form)

Coordinate terms

• speedometer
• tachograph (tacho)

Related terms

• tachygraphy

Related terms

• tachymeter

Translations

device for measuring rpm

• Afrikaans: toereteller
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: тахо́метр m (taxómjetr)
• Catalan: tacòmetre m, compta-revolucions m, comptavoltes m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉速表／转速表 (zhuǎnsùbiǎo)

• Czech: otáčkoměr (cs)
• Danish: omdrejningstæller c
• Dutch: toerenteller (nl) ?
• Esperanto: taĥimetro
• Estonian: pöördeloendur
• Faroese: snúningsmátari m, ferðmátari m
• Finnish: kierroslukumittari, takometri (fi)
• French: tachymètre (fr) m, compte-tour (fr) m, compte-tours (fr) m
• Galician: contarrevolucións m, tacómetro m
• Georgian: ტაქომეტრი (ka) (ṭakomeṭri)
• German: Drehzahlmesser (de) m, Tachometer (de) m or n
• Gujarati: વેગમાપક (vegmāpak)
• Hebrew: מונה סיבובים m (moné sivuvím), טכומטר (he) m (takhométer)
• Hindi: वेगमापी (vegmāpī)
• Hungarian: fordulatszámmérő (hu)
• Icelandic: snúningshraðamælir m
• Italian: tachimetro (it) m
• Japanese: 回転速度計 (kaitensokudokei), タコメーター (ja) (takomētā)
• Kannada: ವೇಗಮಾಪಕ (kn) ? (vēgamāpaka)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 회전계 (ko) (hoejeon'gye), 회전속도계 (hoejeonsokdogye), 타코미터 (takomiteo)
• Macedonian: вртежомер m (vrtežomer)
• Malay: takometer
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turteller m, takometer

  Nynorsk: turteljar m, takometer

• Polish: obrotomierz (pl) m, tachometr m
• Portuguese: tacômetro (pt) m (Brazil), tacómetro m (Portugal), taquímetro (pt) m, conta-voltas (pt) m, conta-giros (pt) m (Brazil), conta-rotações m (Portugal)
• Romanian: tahometru (ro) n, turometru n (rare)
• Russian: тахо́метр (ru) m (taxómetr)
• Spanish: cuentarrevoluciones (es), tacómetro (es) m
• Swedish: varvtalsmätare (sv), varvräknare (sv) c
• Tagalog: inugsukat
• Tamil: சுழற்சி அளவி (cuḻaṟci aḷavi), வேகமானி (vēkamāṉi)
• Thai: เครื่องวัดวามเร็ว
• Tibetan: ཤེད་འཕྲུལ་འགྲོས་ཁྲ། (shed 'phrul 'gros khra)
• Turkish: devir saati
• Ukrainian: тахо́метр m (taxómetr)
• Vietnamese: máy đo tốc độ

device for measuring velocity — see speedometer

Anagrams

• tachometre